Buffalo AKG Charts a New Course With Co

Market Buffalo AKG Charts a New Course With Co-Director Model—and More Industry Intel Plus: Aichi Triennale announces a director for its 2028 edition and Berlin's Heidi relocates to London. Plus: Aichi Triennale announces a director for its 2028 edition and Berlin's Heidi relocates to London. Jo Lawson-Tancred ShareShare This Article Industry Intel distills the week’s must-know art business news into one nimble read. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter, The Back Room, for in-depth market insights and sharp analysis. – The Armory Show returns to New York’s Javits Center September 24–27 with around 230 exhibitors. Newcomers include London’s Alison Jacques and Mennour from Paris. – This fall, Frieze Sculpture fills London’s Regent’s Park with work by 11 artists, including Ivana Bašić, Angel Otero, and Conrad Shawcross. The free public art show runs September 16–November 1. – Curator Cloe Piccoli is the first artistic director of Milan’s Miart, part of a strategic pivot to strengthen the fair’s institutional network. – New York’s The Hole is being sued by artists Daniel Um and Nastaran Shahbazi over allegedly unpaid sales proceeds worth $50,000 in total. The gallery closed its Los Angeles location in September. (Artnews) – David Zwirner closed his Upper East Side gallery a year after Hauser & Wirth departed the space next door. The mega-gallery maintains multiple New York locations in West Chelsea and Tribeca. (Artnet News) – Berlin’s Heidi gallery is relocating to London’s Mayfair neighborhood this fall. – Artist David Reed left Gagosian for New York’s Rodder, which represents him in collaboration with Galerie Anke Schmidt, Häusler Contemporary, and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. (Baer Faxt) – Amedeo Polazzo joined the roster of London’s Herald Street, Suleman Aqeel Khilji is now repped by White Cube in collaboration with Standard Oslo, Orkideh Torabi and Susan Hamburger joined Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York, and Nazarian/Curcio now reps Rachel Mica Weiss in collaboration with CARVAHLO. – A U.S. appeals court has upheld a ruling favoring Jeff Koons in a five-year-long copyright dispute over his “Made in Heaven” series. Sculptor Michael Hayden claimed Koons used his 1988 sculpture without permission, but judges ruled he waited too long to sue, given the series’ notoriety since 1990. (Artnet News) – Connecticut antiques dealer David L. Johnson pleaded guilty to charges of money laundering at a New Haven courthouse on Tuesday. The thefts allegedly totaled some $2.1 million. (Artnews) – Buffalo AKG Art Museum has opted for an untraditional co-leadership model rather than naming a single successor to outgoing director Janne Sirén, who departs at the end of October after 13 years. Deputy director Jillian Jones and chief curator Cathleen Chaffee will step into the newly created executive director and artistic director roles, respectively, beginning November 1, both reporting directly to the board. – Jessica Morgan departs Dia Art Foundation to head Tate, starting January 1, 2027. (Artnet News) – Philadelphia Museum of Art tapped Ann Marguerite Tartsinis as curator and head of costume and textiles. – A new nonprofit dedicated to South Asian Art, Muara Arts, opens in Kuala Lumpur on November 1. – Ecuador’s national museum has picked a design by Japanese firm Sanaa for its $100 million new home. (The Art Newspaper) – The Aichi Triennale tapped Singapore Art Museum‘s Shabbir Hussain Mustafa as artistic director of its 2028 edition. – Ferran Barenblit, ex-director of Barcelona’s MACBA contemporary art museum, has been appointed chief curator of the 16th Shanghai Biennale, slated for November 2027. – Hammer Museum has chosen its own chief curator, Michael Wellen, to curate its 2027 Made in L.A. biennial, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art‘s José Luis Blondet. (Artnet News) – Legendary blue-chip dealer Joe Helman, who partnered with Irving Blum to establish Blum Helman in New York in 1973, has died aged 89. (Artnet News)